Press for drawing alimentary paste or bodies of other pasty matter.



P. BARDUCCI.

PRESS FOR DRAWING ALIMENTARY PASTE 0R BODIES, OF OTHER PASTY MATTER. APPLICATION FILED OCT-24. 1914.

1,183,715. Patented May16,1'916.

FIG. 1

THE COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH CO" WASHINGTON. D. c.

s'ras PIIJADE BARDUCCI, OF NAPLES, ITALY.

PRESS FOR ALIMENTARY PASTE OR BODIES OF OTHER PASTY MATTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PILADE BARDUCCI, a subject of the King of Italy, and residing at 16 Viale Elena, Naples, Italy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Presses for Drawing Alimentary Paste or. Bodies of other Pasty Matter, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel form of apparatus for drawing alimentary paste or the like, and consists in certain novel features of construction which are illustrated in the drawings as several forms illustrating the present improved state of my invention.

In the drawings: Figures 1 to 4 inclusive illustrate diagrammatic views of various methods of combining mixing chambers and dies. Figs. 5 to 10 inclusive, are diagrammatic views somewhat in detail illustrating the principle shown in Figs. 1 to 4. Fig. 11 is a plan view of the device; and Fig. 12 is a transverse section therethrough.

The object of the invention is a device to be used in drawing presses, which permits to feed uniformly from one press vessel (G) one or more dies (T) arranged in a plane not at right angles to the axis of the press vessel (Figs. 1, 2, 3), or one or more dies disposed at right angles to the said axis, but arranged so that the axis of the die or dies does not coincide with the axis of the press vessel (Fig. 1).

The invention consists essentially in an arrangement intended to distribute the mat,

ter when conveying it from the press vessel to the dies, this arrangement consisting ofcircular conical chambers whose vertexes intercommunicate either directly (Figs. 5, 6, 7) or by means of a tubular conduit (Figs. 8, 9, 10). The matter compressed in the press vessel (G) is received by a conical chamber (P) in which the matter converges while advancing from the base toward the vertex and whence it passes on and is distributed into one or more other conical chambers (F) where it diverges while advancing from the vertex to the base being the mouth of the chamber, which is covered by a die (T).

The Figs. 11 and 12 of the annexed drawing are respectively an upper plan view and a transverse vertical section of one constructional form of the device, the same being shown in combination with a vertical compression chamber, with an apparatus for Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed October 24, 1914. Serial No. 868,461.

warming the matter and with four dies arranged in a vertical plane, the arrangement being adapted for manufacturing alimentary paste cut into small pieces.

The compression chamber 1 bears on the warming plug 2 which is carried by the support 3. The paste is compressed in the compression chamber 1 by any suitable means and descends into the chamber 4 in the upper part of the plug 2, whence it advances through the tubes 5 arranged within the plug in the manner of a crown, converging therein from the top to the bottom. The paste thus divided into a plurality of strings then enters the conical chamber 6 and, warmed during its travel through the tubes 5 which are surrounded by chambers 7 wherein a heating fluid circulates, amalgamates again while further advancing to the vertex of the conical chamber 6.

Radially to the conical chamber 6 and in a plane at right angles thereto, there are arranged conical chambersS. The chamber 6 communicates with the chambers 8 as the respective vextexes meet at the center of the small spherical chamber 9, and the paste coming from the chamber 6 is thus dis tributed into the chambers 8, where it advances from the vertex toward the base and whichit leaves through the dies 10, each of which covers from the outside the mouth of a chamber 8. Each die 10 is held against the mouth of its chamber 8 by a collar 11 screwed on to the neck 12 having segmental threads. The collar is revoluble within a supporting ring 13 which is apt to slide along the shafts 1 1 so that the collar may be carried backward for interchanging the dies. When leaving the dies, the paste is cut by any suitable known device indicated by the numerals 15, 16.

What I claim is:

1. A device of the character described including a feed hopper, a perforated septum adapted to be heated and which is located at the lower portion of the feed hopper, a vertically extending conical hopper which is adapted to receive the paste discharged from the septum, a plurality of conical chambers whose vertices are coincident with the vertex of the opposite conical hopper, all of said vertices being coincident and intercommunicating, and a die and cutter located at the base portion of each of the conical mixing chambers.

2. A device of the character described incated at the base portion of each of the v eluding a vertical feed hopper, a perforated septum at the lower portion thereof, a conical receiving chamber beneath the septum having its vertex extending downwardly, a

plurality of-conical chambers whose vertices at the lower portion thereof, a vertical conical chamber whose larger portion is adjacent the perforated septum, a plurality of conical chambers whose vertices are C01Il01- dent with the smaller end ofthe vertical conical chamber and whose axes are radially disposed around the vertex of said vertical conical chamber, and a die and cutter loradial conical chambers.

4. A device of the character described jcomprising a vertically disposed paste receiving'hopper, a septumat'tlie'lower portion of the hopper, said septum being provided with downwardly extending convergin 0 enin s a conical mixin chamber beneath the septum, the vertex of said chamher being extended downwardly, a plurality of conical chambers whose axes-are horizontally and radially disposed around the vertex of the mixing chamber, the vertices of the last mentioned conicalchambers and the mixing chamber being coincident and in- 'tercommumcating, and a d1e and cutter located at the base portion of each of the horizontal conical chambers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses the 30th-day of September 1914.

PILADE BARDUCCI.

Witnesses:

EDW. H. Corr, WILLIAM GERGRILE.

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Washington; .D. G." 

